Tag: Politics
Jega’s Farce And A Nation’s Tragedy
By Peter Claver Oparah The shambolic conduct of the governorship election in Anambra State has revved to the fore the…
Getting It Right
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, on Tuesday 12 November 2013, marked his fifth year in office.…
APC Slams Police For Continued Detention Of Election Observers
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as totally inexplicable and unjustifiable the continued detention of the 182 election Observers…
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President Jonathan, Dame Patience And I
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State explains his fractious relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan to TheNEWS editors In the last…
Amaechi: Battered But Unbowed
Rattled. That is what Rotimi Amaechi should be. Months of enduring body blows from an out-and-out heavyweight that is the…
Amosun Presents N210bn Budget For 2014
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, southwest, Nigeria today presented a proposed budget of N210.21 billion for the 2014 fiscal…
Anambra Election: APC Slams Police For Arresting Election Monitors
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the police of acting out the script of the PDP for Saturday’s governorship…
Nigeria In Litmus Test Vote For 2015 Polls
Nigeria’s Anambra state goes to the polls this weekend to elect a new governor in a vote seen as a…
INEC Deploys 362 Generators
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has began deploying over 362 electricity generating sets to the 362 wards across Anambra State…
Anambra 2013: It Is Ngige All The Way
By Joe Igbokwe As the decision time draws near in Anambra State, a lot of forces are at play now.…
The Crazy 22-Hour Curfew In Anambra
The 22-hour restriction on movement from midnight on Friday 15 November, to 10p.m. on Saturday 16 November during the Anambra…
Anambra Poll: APC Tasks Jonathan To Keep Pledge On Fair Election
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to live up to his promise of a free and…
Oshiomhole Has Nothing To Celebrate, Says PDP
Edo State chapter of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has alleged a total of N400 billion has accrued to the…
INEC Creates 1,973 Extra Polling Units For Anambra Poll
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted voters in Anambra State to the creation of 1,973 extra polling units out…
Exclusive: Why Jonathan, Wife Are Fighting Me —Amaechi
The Governor of Rivers State, southern Nigeria, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that he incurred the wrath of President Goodluck Jonathan…
Taraba Gets New Speaker
The Taraba State House of Assembly Monday elected a new speaker, Josiah Sabo Kente, a member representing Wukari 2 Constituency…
Oyinlola: PDP Goes To Supreme Court
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it will proceed to the Supreme Court to challenge Wednesday’s Appeal Court’s reinstatement…
APC Wants INEC Dock APGA Candidate, Obiano, For Multiple Registration
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately commence the process of…
Merchants Of Blood Incorporated
By Ebo Socrates It is a season of mourning in Anambra State. A time of sorrows, pangs of pain, turmoil…
INEC, PDP Plotting To Rig Anambra Governorship Poll —APC
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed a serious doubt in the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,…
Police Now Armed Wing Of PDP —APC Governors
The Progressive Governors Forum, PGF, has described the police as the armed wing of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following…
Ngige Can’t Be Arrested, APC Tells APGA
The All Progressive Congress, APC, says its governorship candidate in this month’s election in Amabra State, Dr. Chris Ngige, cannot…
Aregbesola: Critics Want To Demonise Us
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the State of Osun explains to General Editor, ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE, Associate Editor, BAMIDELE JOHNSON and SEUN…
Anambra Has Lost 5,000 Companies —Ngige
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 14 November governorship election holding in Anambra State, eastern Nigeria, Senator…
2014 Budget: Amosun Promises More Democracy Dividends
Senator Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, has reassured the people of the state that the dividends of democracy…
APC Condemns Confab Committee’s Show Of Shame In Edo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the sponsored disruption of Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s presentation during a meeting of…
Kaduna Speaker’s Removal: Court Fixes 6 Dec. For Judgement
A Kaduna High Court has fixed 6 December for ruling on the case brought by Alhaji Muazu Gangara challenging his…
No election in Delta Central, alleges Dafinone
Delta Central Senatorial Candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Chief Ede Dafinone says Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…
Court To Baraje, Others: Stop Parading As PDP Leaders
Justice Evoh Chukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday ordered Kawu Baraje, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and Sam…
My Wish For Anambra State
By Joe Igbokwe As the 16 November Anambra governorship elections draw near, permutations and calculations about who the winner is…